"Anna Karenina (1985 film) Anna Karenina is a 1985 American made-for-television romantic drama film based on the famous Leo Tolstoy novel ""Anna Karenina"" starring Jacqueline Bisset and Christopher Reeve and directed by Simon Langton. The film was broadcast on CBS on March 26, 1985. Tragic Anna Karenina (; ) leaves her cold husband for the dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia. The unfortunate series of events leave her hopelessly depressed. This 1985 TV movie version starred: Actor Christopher Reeve, according to his autobiography ""Still Me"", claimed that while making this movie he learned how to ride a horse, then fell"
"Anna Karenina is a virtuous woman married to a government official 15 years older than she. Anna falls in love with the handsome and charming Count Alexis Vronsky, but she is torn by her loyalty to her husband and small son. Meanwhile, Vronsky had first courted Ekaterina ""Kitty"" Alexandrovna Shcherbatsky, who chose him over gentleman farmer Konstantin Dmitrievich Levin. When Vronsky falls in love with Anna instead, Kitty becomes ill, and Levin, heartsick, withdraws to his country estate. Kitty and Levin finally declare their love for each other. Anna's choice of love over duty leads to tragedy: Her affair with"
"Anna Karenina (1997 film) Anna Karenina is a 1997 American period drama film written and directed by Bernard Rose and starring Sophie Marceau, Sean Bean, Alfred Molina, Mia Kirshner and James Fox. Based on the 1877 homonymous novel by Leo Tolstoy, the film is about a young and beautiful married woman who meets a handsome count, with whom she falls in love. Eventually, the conflict between her passionate desires and painful social realities leads to depression and despair. The film is the only international version filmed entirely in Russia, at locations in Saint Petersburg and Moscow. Anna Karenina is a"
"her and marry a younger woman. She travels to the railway station and commits suicide by jumping in front of a train. Vronsky is emotionally devastated by her death and volunteers for a 'suicide mission' in the Balkan war. While travelling to join his regiment, he encounters Konstantin Levin at the train station. Levin has married Vronsky's former (and unrequited) sweetheart, Princess ""Kitty"" Shcherbatsky. Levin attempts to persuade Vronsky of the value of life. Vronsky, however, is now despondent, and can only speak of how Anna's body looked at the railway station when he arrived to see her. They separate,"
"Natasha develops an infatuation with the libertine Prince Anatole Kuragin. She breaks off the engagement with Andrei and plans to elope with Kuragin. Natasha is stopped by her cousin Sonya and Marya Dmitrievna, who suspect Anatole's intentions. They later find out from Pierre Bezukhov that Anatole is already secretly married to a Polish woman. Andrei wants to take revenge on Kuragin, who flees after Pierre warns him. Not having found Kuragin and in the light of Napoleon's 1812 invasion, he decides to join the army again. When Kutuzov is appointed commander-in-chief, he offers Andrei a position in his personal staff."
"of 1812"". Anatole Kuragin Anatole Vasilyevich Kuragin () is a fictional character in Leo Tolstoy's novel ""War and Peace"", its various cinematic adaptations, and an operatic adaptation as well. Anatole is Hélène Kuragina's brother and a wild-living soldier. It is rumoured that he has had an incestuous affair with his sister, and he tries to elope with Natasha Rostova despite being secretly married. He loses his leg during the Napoleonic Wars. While developing the novel, Tolstoy sketched a character named ""Petr"", ""who passed through a complex evolution"" and ""was a precursor of both Pierre and Anatole Kuragin"". Anatoly Shostak served"
"young and elegant wife of Alexei Karenin, a wealthy nobleman twenty years her senior. She is unhappy and lives only for their son, Seriozha. During a ball in Moscow, she encounters the handsome Count Alexei Vronsky. Vronsky is instantly smitten and follows her to St. Petersburg, pursuing her shamelessly. Eventually, Anna surrenders to her feelings for him and becomes his mistress. Though they are happy together, their relationship soon crumbles after she miscarries his child. Karenin is deeply touched by her pain and agrees to forgive her. However, Anna remains unhappy and, to the scandal of respectable society, she openly"
"When the Chinese minister in St. Petersburg was asked by the Empress Anna who was the most beautiful woman at her court, he pointed to Elizabeth, to Anna's intense displeasure. Elizabeth's response to the lack of marriage prospects was to take Alexis Shubin, a handsome sergeant in the Semyonovsky Guards regiment, as her lover. When Empress Anna found out about this, she had Shubin's tongue cut off and banished him to Siberia. Elizabeth consoled herself with a handsome coachman and then turned to a footman for her sexual pleasure. Eventually she found her long-term companion in Alexis Razumovsky, a young"
"has acted for the same reasons. Anna, shaken by her emotional and physical response to Vronsky, returns at once to St. Petersburg. Vronsky travels on the same train. During the overnight journey, the two meet and Vronsky confesses his love. Anna refuses him, although she is deeply affected by his attentions to her. Levin, crushed by Kitty's refusal, returns to his estate, abandoning any hope of marriage. Anna returns to her husband, Count Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin, a senior government official, and her son, Seryozha, in St. Petersburg. On seeing her husband for the first time since her encounter with Vronsky,"
"The movie is like a storyboard for ""Anna Karenina"" with the life and subtlety still to be added.' Anna Karenina (1997 film) Anna Karenina is a 1997 American period drama film written and directed by Bernard Rose and starring Sophie Marceau, Sean Bean, Alfred Molina, Mia Kirshner and James Fox. Based on the 1877 homonymous novel by Leo Tolstoy, the film is about a young and beautiful married woman who meets a handsome count, with whom she falls in love. Eventually, the conflict between her passionate desires and painful social realities leads to depression and despair. The film is the"
"and even paranoid due to her infidelity's suspicions which will lead eventually to her suicide. Anna Karenina (1915 film) Anna Karenina is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Betty Nansen. It was the first American adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The film is considered to be lost. Some scenes were shot on location at a ski resort near Montreal. Anna Karenina is a married aristocrat and socialite living in Saint Petersburg. She is living a torrid romance with a wealthy and young count, he loves her and is willing to marry"
"wounded soldiers, and Natasha discovers that Andrei is among the wounded soldiers. She devotes all her time to nursing him. After the French forces depart Moscow, Natasha again meets Andrei's sister Marya and together they nurse Andrei until he dies. They are reunited with Pierre, whose estranged wife Helene has died. Natasha and Pierre fall in love. Eventually, they marry and have four children. The character of Natasha Rostova is difficult to portray on film or television, because she ages from a 13-year-old girl in book one to a 28-year-old mother of four at the end of the novel. Several"
"is powerfully attracted. Late in the novel, Hélène forsakes the Russian Orthodox Church and adopts Catholicism, believing a large donation to the church will lead the pope to annul her union with Pierre so she can remarry. Soon afterward, Hélène falls ill due to a pregnancy and dies; it is implied that she died from a drug overdose in an attempted abortion. Hélène Kuragina Princess Yelena ""Hélène"" Vasilyevna Kuragina () is a fictional character in Leo Tolstoy's novel ""War and Peace"" and its various cinematic adaptations. She is played by Anita Ekberg in the 1956 film, by Amber Gray in"
"Anatole Kuragin Anatole Vasilyevich Kuragin () is a fictional character in Leo Tolstoy's novel ""War and Peace"", its various cinematic adaptations, and an operatic adaptation as well. Anatole is Hélène Kuragina's brother and a wild-living soldier. It is rumoured that he has had an incestuous affair with his sister, and he tries to elope with Natasha Rostova despite being secretly married. He loses his leg during the Napoleonic Wars. While developing the novel, Tolstoy sketched a character named ""Petr"", ""who passed through a complex evolution"" and ""was a precursor of both Pierre and Anatole Kuragin"". Anatoly Shostak served as the"
"and having to leave Vronsky, she commits suicide by leaping in front of a train. This variant follows the original work of Leo Tolstoy. For three years, the lovers do not see each other but Vronsky searches frantically for Anna. By chance, he reads in a newspaper that Anna's son is at the Military Academy in St. Petersburg and visits him, learning that Karenin has died and that Anna visits her son daily. They meet and are reunited. Love (1927 American film) Love (1927) is a silent film directed by Edmund Goulding and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. MGM made the film"
"Andrei Bolkonsky, joins the Imperial Russian Army as aide-de-camp of General Mikhail Kutuzov in the War of the Third Coalition against Napoleon. As Pierre's father recognizes him, Andrei attracts the attention of Hélène Kuragin and marries her, only to discover she is unfaithful. He takes part in the failed campaign in Austria, where he witnesses the Battle of Schöngrabern and the Battle of Austerlitz, is badly wounded and mistaken for dead. His wife dies in childbirth. In the end of 1809, Natasha, the young daughter of a count attends her first ball. Andrei falls in love with her and intends"
"which they have chosen. The main original song for the film ""Admiral"" is called Anna. She is interpreted by the Russian singer Viktoria Dayneko. The music of the song was composed by Igor Matvienko and the words were written by Timiryova in memory of her lover, Admiral Kolchak. Anna Timiryova Anna Vasilyevna Timiryova (; 18 July 1893 Kislovodsk - 31 January 1975 Moscow) was a Russian poet. Born Anna Safonova, she was the daughter of composer Vasily Ilyich Safonov. At the age of 19 she married Admiral Sergey Nikolayevich Timiryov with whom she soon had a son, but whom she"
"Anna, Shota's girlfriend, is taken hostage by the bandits. Despite various efforts Shota falls into the hands of the criminals and they brutally kill him, but The Greek helps Anna and her young daughter escape to Moscow. Aleksei understands that while the Director does not receive all the debts of late Shota, he will go after Anna. And so The Greek who is in love with Anna decides to return to his former ""craft"" in order to ""earn"" money with a card game in order to save Anna. In Moscow, The Greek meets his longtime acquaintance, a criminal named ""Crucian"","
"Railway. Zheleznodorozhny, Moscow Oblast Zheleznodorozhny () was a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located east of Moscow. It was abolished and merged into the city of Balashikha in January 2015. Population: Founded in 1861 to service the railway station of Obiralovka (), the settlement became famous as the location where the main character of Leo Tolstoy's 1878 novel ""Anna Karenina"" committed suicide. It was renamed Zheleznodorozhny (Russian for ""by the railway"") in 1939 and granted town status in 1952. In the 1960s the settlements of Kuchino (), Savvino (), Temnikovo (), and Sergeyevka () became part of Zheleznodorozhny. Kuchino is"
"Anna Petrovna Kern Anna Petrovna Kern (, née Poltoratskaya (Полторацкая), name after second marriage: Markova-Vinogradskaya (Маркова-Виноградская)) (11 February 1800 – 27 May 1879) was a Russian socialite and memoirist, best known as the addressee of what is probably the best known love poem in the Russian language, written by Aleksandr Pushkin in 1825. Anna was born in Oryol at the mansion of her grandfather, the local governor. She was brought up in Lubny in the Poltava Governorate (present-day Ukraine). On 8 January 1817 she was married by her parents to the 56-year-old General Kern, whom she professed to detest thoroughly."
"by ""those few friends he had"") goes missing in action and her daughter, Masha, is killed by Germans in their hometown of Kiev, Ukraine. After Masha's death, Tat'yana desires to become a soldier and boards a train filled with recruits. As she and the recruits change into military gear and uniforms on the train, while some make lewd comments at her, Tat'yana is one of the first to acknowledge that she can fire a gun when asked by a political officer. After killing a cow in a farmer's field, the officer smiles and tells her to ""Do the same with"
"to marry her, but his father demands they wait. Andrei travels abroad, and Natasha desperately longs for him. But she then meets Anatol Kuragin and decides she prefers him over Andrei. At the last minute, she regrets her choice and abandons her plans to elope with Anatol. However, Andrei has heard of her plans and declares their betrothal is over. Pierre, trying to calm her down, suddenly announces he loves her. In 1812, Napoleon's Army invades Russia. General Kutuzov asks Andrei to join him as a staff officer, but he requests a command in the field. Pierre sets out to"
"close if they did not wish to freeze to death. Eventually, the couple survived when the maid traded a pearl necklace for a sheepskin coat from one of the guards. An enthusiastic hunter, Anna always kept a rifle by her window so she could blast away at birds at all hours of the day whenever she felt the urge to hunt. Anna continued lavish architectural advances in St. Petersburg. She completed a waterway that began construction under Peter the Great and called for seafaring ships to accompany this new canal and continue naval expansion. Anna's lover Ernst Johann von Biron"
"of how he had fallen in love with a beautiful young maiden, Naina (Наина), who spurned his attention. In order to win her love he tried to become a glorious warrior, but when she rejected him, spent years learning the magical arts instead. He finally cast a spell to win Naina's love, only to find that she herself was actually an old crone. After he rejected her, she became bent on revenge. Now that Finn had helped Ruslan, Naina will hate him as well. Rogday decides to abandon the quest for Ludmila and to find and kill Ruslan instead. Seeing"
"Anna demonstrates publicly her excessive interest in Vronsky's safety, she visits Vronsky in his rooms to see that he is all right and is cast off by her husband. Anna and Vronsky go off to Italy together. After a while, Anna suffers because she left her son, so Vronsky takes her back to Russia. She visits her son, who had been told she was dead, to bring him presents on his birthday, but is discovered with him by Karenin and barred from the house permanently, He tells her that her son will forget her, as he has done once already,"
"dedicated his life to his people. His greatest failing is his devotion to Alena, a love that clouds his judgment, and blinds him to her malign influence. Raisa Vasilyeva is the illegitimate daughter of Ursa's Czar. When her half-sister the Princess Alena was lost fleeing Ursa's revolution Raisa took her name and her title, rising through the ranks of society to eventually become the Kaiser's consort. Like the General Raisa too has been touched by the power of Gottfaust's stone – her hands scarred, cursed to corrupt with her anger anything she touches. With the help of her Governess Nana,"
"her mentor Mikhail Volskiy and tolerated by her boss Bagmet. During her assignment in Lebanon, she hearing a rumor from one of her contacts in Beirut that a Russian military officer has been ""turned."" In 1999, Anna learns that a Russian Army Alpha Force team in Chechnya has found Russian Marine Corps major Alexey Bragin, who had been believed killed in 1993. While the rest of the FSB and the political establishment believe Bragin to be a war hero, Anna is worried that he has been recruited and brainwashed by Chechen chief Bin Jalid to act as a sleeper agent."
"Anna Karenina (1915 film) Anna Karenina is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Betty Nansen. It was the first American adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The film is considered to be lost. Some scenes were shot on location at a ski resort near Montreal. Anna Karenina is a married aristocrat and socialite living in Saint Petersburg. She is living a torrid romance with a wealthy and young count, he loves her and is willing to marry her once she leave her husband. However, Russian's society rejection makes her feel isolated, possessive"
"army made an attempt to blow up the convent, but the nuns managed to save the cloister from destruction. In Tolstoy's ""War and Peace"", Pierre was to be executed under the convent walls. In another novel of his, ""Anna Karenina"", Konstantin Lyovin (a main character) meets his future wife Kitty ice-skating near the monastery walls. Indeed, the Maiden's Field (as a meadow in front of the convent came to be known) was the most popular skating-rink in 19th-century Moscow. Tolstoy himself enjoyed skating here when he lived nearby, in the district of Khamovniki. In 1871, the Filatyev brothers donated money"
"Zheleznodorozhny, Moscow Oblast Zheleznodorozhny () was a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located east of Moscow. It was abolished and merged into the city of Balashikha in January 2015. Population: Founded in 1861 to service the railway station of Obiralovka (), the settlement became famous as the location where the main character of Leo Tolstoy's 1878 novel ""Anna Karenina"" committed suicide. It was renamed Zheleznodorozhny (Russian for ""by the railway"") in 1939 and granted town status in 1952. In the 1960s the settlements of Kuchino (), Savvino (), Temnikovo (), and Sergeyevka () became part of Zheleznodorozhny. Kuchino is historically"
"his troop morale raiser. After the inclusion of a new troop morale raiser into an army, one of Peter's friends decided to suggest him to change is mind on Anna Montz, hinting on her being a Lutheran, which in a long run might devastate his nation. Peter however, worries about his assassination, and is desperate of comfortship, which Anna, he thinks will provide. Peter the Great is now officially marries Eudoxia Lopukhina, and as soon as heard of his mother's decision on it, he rushed to the Anna Montz house. Both Anna and Peter saw each other at her house,"
"Andrei declines as he is a well-liked regimental commander, considering his role there to be more important than what he could possibly accomplish as a staff officer. During the Battle of Borodino he is hit by an exploding shell and seriously wounded in the stomach. While in agony, he sees Anatole, whose leg is amputated due to war wounds, and realizes that he has the capability to forgive both Anatole and Natasha, and that he still loves her. He is driven back to Moscow, where Sonya (Natasha's cousin) notices him when the Rostovs are helping transport wounded soldiers. Eventually, Natasha"
"A Lover's Romance A Lover's Romance or ""Romance for Lovers"" () is a 1974 Soviet musical romantic drama directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. Sergei and Tanya are in love with each other. Sergei is drafted into the marine corps and Tania waits for his return. Sergei's division is abandoned in favor of helping local residents in distress. During the operation, his armored personnel gets carried into the sea. His relatives receive a notice of his death. Tanya's loving childhood friend, a hockey player, helps her to cope with misfortune and she marries him. But it turned out that Sergei did not"